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Pi-hole and WireGuard on LXC for Phone Ad-Blocking

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2020Saturday, November 21st, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network level via DNS. By combining this with OpenVPN I had ad-blocking on my OnePlus 3. Things have moved on since then; the machine – a laptop ‘server’ – serving Pi-hole […]

Setting up Postgres using Ansible (for Gitea!)

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2020Thursday, July 16th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

I set up a local Gitea server for some ‘local’ repositories- things like my accounts (in hledger format!) which I wouldn’t want on a server not under my own control. I considered doing this in Docker as that is a supported install method and I’ve enjoyed using Docker; but Gitea ties together a few services […]

Playing Fate RPG Online: Self-Hosting

Posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2020Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Helping us help you help us all The coronavirus lockdown is a great opportunity to try out more RPG gaming, as I previously mentioned. Playing RPGs in person generates a bunch of content, some of which is ephemeral and some of which is more permanent. Playing online, it would be nice to both: i) have […]